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Gigantic. [Obs.] Bullokar.

The state of being gouty; gout.

The quality of being gritty.

Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.

The quality or state of being guilty.

The quality or state of being hasty; haste; precipitation; rashness; quickness of temper.

Mineral t

The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance.

The quality of being hearty; as, the heartiness of a greeting.

Of or pertaining to the Hellespont. Mitford.

Any one of a series of unsaturated metameric hydrocarbons, C7H12, of the acetylene series.

Having six-rayed spicules; belonging to the Hexactinellinæ.

Belonging to the Hexactinellinæ, a group of sponges, having six-rayed siliceous spicules.

A yearling; a bird of the year.

An alkaloid, found in the rootstock of the golden seal (Hydrastis Canadensis), and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance. It is used as a tonic and febrifuge.

The condition or quality of being impertnent; absence of pertinence, or of adaptedness; irrelevance; unfitness.

Impertinence. [R.] O, matter and impertinency mixed! Reason in madness! Shak.

Not pertinent; not pertaining to the matter in hand; having no bearing on the subject; not to the point; irrelevant; inapplicable. Things that are impertinent to us. Tillotson. How impertinent that grief was which served no end! Jer. Taylor.

In an impertinent manner. "Not to betray myself impertinently." B. Jonson.

Want of abstinence; indulgence. [Obs.] "The inabstinence of Eve." Milton.